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IDC Energy Insights: Worldwide smart grid spending to reach $46.4B in 2015

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Smart grid spending will increase 17.4% billion worldwide in 2015, according to a new report from IDC Energy Insights. For the purposes of the report, Worldwide Utility Smart Grid Spending Forecast, 2010-2015 , IDC Energy Insights identified 14 smart grid project types to identify top investment priorities across regions.

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Battelle introduces Grid Command Distribution services and software for rapid modeling of smart grid distribution circuits

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Screen shot of a Grid Command Distribution “heatmap” analysis for a neighborhood. Battelle recently unveiled its new Grid Command Distribution services and software for utilities. VVO seeks to optimize voltage at all points along the distribution feeder under all loading conditions, thereby increasing grid efficiency.). (VVO

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GM and OnStar launching real-world smart grid pilot with ATOMS-based services

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General Motors and OnStar are launching a real-world pilot of smart grid applications for electric vehicles. Starting this quarter, hundreds of employees of regional utilities will drive leased Chevrolet Volts as their everyday vehicles and participate in the pilot. Demand response.

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Argonne-led team develops new low-cost cobalt-based catalyst for PEM electrolysis

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volts (Nafion 115 membrane) or 4000 milliamperes per square centimeter at 3.00 volts (Nafion 212 membrane) and low degradation in an accelerated stress test. In addition, computational modeling at Berkeley Lab revealed important insights into the catalyst’s durability under reaction conditions. —Chong et al.

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How Automotive Dealerships Can Save Money with Battery Energy Storage

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Discover key insights into incorporating battery storage for your dealership’s sustainable energy storage. What are battery energy storage systems? Unlike Level 2 chargers that use 208/240-volt (V) input, DC fast chargers demand 480 V (often necessitating a new transformer).

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SoCal Edison opens 32 MWh battery energy storage project, largest in North America; batteries from LG Chem

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Southern California Edison (SCE) opened the largest battery energy storage project in North America—the Tehachapi Energy Storage Project—to modernize the grid to integrate more clean energy. This installation will allow us to take a serious look at the technological capabilities of energy storage on the electric grid.

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IndiGrid to build 180 MW battery storage system in Gujarat – ET Auto

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As per a Ministry of Power circular, this grid-connected system, located at a GETCO substation, will be classified as a transmission system. It owns 36 power projects, consisting of 46 transmission lines with more than 8,468 circuit kilometres length, and 13 substations with 17,550 mega volt amp transformation capacity.